Salient attributes of urban green spaces in high density cities: The case of Hong Kong

Habitat International

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-99

  Wan, Calvin ^a   Shen, Geoffrey Qiping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Features; Naturalness; Repertory grid; Variety of facilities

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GREENSPACE; PERCEPTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN SOCIETY;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84930226938     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.016     Document Type: Article

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